Cadcam welding in steel bridge panel fabrication
Yuji Sugitani
(Tsu Labs Engineering Research
Centre, Japan)
Yoshihiro Kanjo
(Tsu Labs
Engineering Research Centre, Japan)
Masatoshi Murayama
(Tsu Labs Engineering Research Centre,
Japan)
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Abstract
Describes the use of welding robots for making bridge panels. The system uses a total of 14 sets of High Speed Rotating Arc welding robots and newly‐developed arc sensor techniques are used with both joint end and bead end sensors. A teaching‐less direct CADCAM system was developed to control the robots. The welding robot system is now in commercial operation with welding efficiencies that are twice those possible with conventional processes.
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Citation
Sugitani, Y., Kanjo, Y. and Murayama, M. (1994), "Cadcam welding in steel bridge panel fabrication", Industrial Robot, Vol. 21 No. 6, pp. 22-29. https://doi.org/10.1108/EUM0000000004170
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
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